F. Scott Fitzgerald

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#art

A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#life #living #love #romance #business

Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind? ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#romance #sadness #love

My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#old #quote #quotes #love

When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#beauty

Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#love #love

That is part of the beauty of literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#beauty

I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#fight #loneliness #love #beauty

I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#change

So we beat on, boats aaginst the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#life #love #struggling #life